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Archive for June, 2006

Hotlinking

I guess it would be a little late to write an article on hotlinking. LOL. But anyway, I was just looking at my stats for June and for some reason I took the time to browse the “Latest Visitors” section of cPanel’s stats and was stunned by the amount of people hotlinking to various images.
Yeah, [...]

Helix pomatia

The Helix pomatia (Roman Snail, Burgundy Snail, or Edible Snail) is quite rare so far north even though they are highly resilient in theory. They are of course very common on the continent where they also double as a “delicacy” among the more backward cultures. I have this one locale where I have regularly observed [...]

Enlightenment

It sure helps when you’re easily entertained and oblivious to monotony. Not to mention immune to the effects of not having changed your clothes or taken a shower for the better part of a week. Now that is a real vacation, just not having to care about anything. Just giving the world the finger and [...]

Azureus XML Processor

I don’t know if I’ll ever post this “live” but here is the new Azureus XML (Azureus_Stats.xml) processing script that I hacked together. Took me awhile since I couldn’t get my hosting company to add any sort of XML support to the server config. But here we go, using DOMXML EXSLT transformations and caching using [...]

Mp3, Last.fm and tagging

On the detrimental effects of using Last.fm. Yes really. So I’m a bit of a neat freak and it shows when tagging mp3s and such. The tagging syndrome is one that has progressed over the years and sort of exploded with the introduction of Last.fm. Proper tagging is obviously the cornerstone of the Last.fm / [...]

Yponomeuta

Great year for Yponomeuta sp. (small ermine moths). Not so great a year for the fruit trees. Simply amazing creatures when it comes to defoliations. Luckily I caught the little blighters in time, or so I’d like to believe. I’m somewhat puzzled that the larvae managed to survive the relatively harsh winter though. With the [...]

Garden Inspiration


Phoning Home

I forgot to refill my prepaid mobile phone card. Same as last year. Luckily you get a month worth of respite before they chew up the number and account. It’s been taken care of now. But still, I know, it speaks plenty of your social life when you rack up less than $10 a year [...]

Site down, thumbs up … maybe

So, I had recurring database problems and then some additional script problems, leaving the site down and out for almost two days. Now that is a little unsettling for someone who is used to perfection and having the daily cathartic effect of writing something really choleric.
Well, it would seem the system is up and running [...]

NTFS Revisited

So, as I noted a while back, I had to convert to NTFS. No big deal really. But I held off on the boot drive for various reasons. Mostly because it required booting to a prompt or batching (botching?) the whole operation with Partition Magic. And before I could do anything, I had to enlarge [...]





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